Jul
28
A Few Thoughts - On Transformation and Curating
Photographs of Transformation
I've been looking at the Paul Fusco photographs made on June 8, 1968 which were recently published by Aperture, and exhibited at James Danziger Gallery. The photographs show a wide range of Americans--thousands of them-- lined up along side the train tracks bearing witness to the passing train which holds Robert F. Kennedy's remains, a silent and beautifully diverse human tribute to the man. Fusco made them as the train moved along the tracks from New York to Washington, DC. Life had assigned him to provide pictures of the prominent people aboard the train. Fusco might have done that, but he also knew that the real story was in the faces and presence of the many nameless Americans passing him by in a slow blur.
I've been looking at the Paul Fusco photographs made on June 8, 1968 which were recently published by Aperture, and exhibited at James Danziger Gallery. The photographs show a wide range of Americans--thousands of them-- lined up along side the train tracks bearing witness to the passing train which holds Robert F. Kennedy's remains, a silent and beautifully diverse human tribute to the man. Fusco made them as the train moved along the tracks from New York to Washington, DC. Life had assigned him to provide pictures of the prominent people aboard the train. Fusco might have done that, but he also knew that the real story was in the faces and presence of the many nameless Americans passing him by in a slow blur.